In 1962, Ash Stevens was founded by Dr. Art Ash (the first Ph.D. student of Professor Herbert C. Brown) and Professor Cal Stevens of Wayne State University. Ash Stevens had a single employee and business model to provide contract chemical research services to meet the outsourcing needs of the U.S. Government. The Federal Government was the major customer for the first twenty-eight years. With the approval of Ash Stevens' first commercial product, Fludarabine Phosphate, in 1991, the company moved along a path of increased commercial pharmaceutical chemistry, while retaining government contracts. Ash Stevens received its twelfth manufacturing approval in 2012 and is continuing to expand. Today, our first employee remains on our Board, serves as a consultant, and helps train the eighty current employees about running a pharmaceutical chemical business, which remains a complicated commercial endeavor. Personnel training and development programs are a key part of the success of the business.

Ash Stevens: A small pharmaceutical chemical company going strong at fifty years

247th National Meeting (2014)

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